Infection Control
Services
ID CARE is New Jersey’s largest network of infectious
disease physicians focusing exclusively on the diagnosis, prevention,
& treatment of infectious diseases.
The goal of ID Care infection control and epidemiology
service is to help health care facilities protect patients and healthcare
personnel, while promote safety, quality, and value in the healthcare
delivery system by providing guidance in the following areas:
- Antibiotic Formulary Management
- Blood borne pathogen control,
protection, evaluation
- Outbreak Management/Evaluation
- Microbiology Laboratory Services/Support
- Isolation Protocols
- Reportable Disease Management
- Employee Health
- Bioterrorism and Pandemic Infectious Disease Prepardedness
- Cost effectiveness of prevention interventions,
- Promotion of implementation and evaluation of prevention
interventions, and
Development of infection control guidelines and policies
- Emerging antimicrobial-resistant infections
- Efficacy of new interventions for patient safety
- Vaccine utilization for staff and patients
ID CARE Infection Control Services are provided
to hospitals & extended care facilities to develop, supervise,
& guide the evaluation of isolation protocols, nosocomial infections,
employee health, & compliance.
Association for Professionals in Infection Control
& Epidemiology (APIC) www.apic.orgSociety for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) www.shea-online.org
In addition to our more than 50 collective years of
providing these services we work closely with the state department
of health and utilize resources from CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/index.html
and national experts.
Services are provided across the continuum of
healthcare services from the acute care hospital, long term care,
out patient facilities including ambulatory surgery centers, as
well as industry and government providers who need such services.
The ID Cares medical staff
provides consultation, care & education from our five office
locations in north & central New Jersey. 908-281-0221
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